Dana Gardner
Principal Analyst
Interarbor Solutions
Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 18 years.
Gardner tracks and analyzes a critical set of enterprise software technologies and business development issues: application development and deployment strategies, SOA, cloud computing, virtualization, application lifecycle optimization, and data center energy efficiency and modernization techniques. He is a prolific blogger and podcaster.
Gardner is a former senior analyst at Yankee Group and Aberdeen Group, and a former editor-at-large and founding online news editor at InfoWorld.